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Category Archives: Educationau


Are you ready to join a Trust Federation?

Are you ready (technically) to join a Trust Federation?
If you are an organisation that wants to join a trust federation then, in order to get the full benefits, your IT functions will need to be up to speed.
Presumably you want to join a trust federation in order to deliver the following benefits to you organisation […]

The case for Trust Federations in Education

The concept of a Trust Federation for the Australian education sector is a subject of lively debate and some activity.
The Australian Access Federation (AAF) is progressing from a testbed to production status. To date it has focused mainly on the needs of the Australian higher education (HE) sector.
There has been much discussion about a trust […]

Social Networking behind the Firewall

Education.au ltd’s me.edu.au social networking site has continued to generate interest not only from the education community but also from government and corporates.
My colleague Sarah Hayman and I recently presented at a South Australian Government Web 2.0 conference.
This was a lively and informative event attended by 150 delegates from across South Australian Government and other […]

SCORM and CORDRA at Work

E-learning standards guru Jon Mason (who is now the editor for the JISC/DEST e-Framework project) organised a seminar on Friday 6Oct06 at the University of South Australia to promote awareness of ADL technologies such as SCORM and CORDRA.
Dan Rehack (who is now co-director of the WorkForce ADL Co-Lab in Memphis) gave the keynote “The 5 R’s […]

Blogging from Microsoft Word Documents

If you are like me you have a large volume of content sitting in Microsoft Word documents that you would like to publish on your Blog. You are comfortable and productive using Word and prefer to keep your source documents in Word format on your local laptop of corporate LAN.
It would be very attractive to […]

Cathedrals and Bazaars: Shibboleth versus Web 2.0

There are a number of Higher Education initiatives, both nationally here in Australia and internationally, that are aimed at building a trust fabric to enable secure collaboration between institutions.
Central to these initiatives is the notion of creating federations of institutions who (while maintaining the identity of its staff and students in its internal systems) […]

The Australian Middleware Forum and CAMP 2006

The Middleware Forum and CAMP 2006 was held this week at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. This was a Higher Education (HE) conference focusing on the core middleware that would be needed by the HE sector. The 1 day forum was more about strategy and policy while the 2 day camp was more about technical architectures […]